Originally posted by Donk3yMan
Yes, the intention of your obvious statement that you should build a dot in a manner that helps his performance is true. Unfortunately SA AEQ accomplishes the opposite of that. Planning to take SA AEQ for any position except K/P and possibly OL/possession WR is a bad idea and should only be done in desperation.
As illustrated in your post one of the common misconceptions about this is that it does not mean neglecting any SAs themselves. You take the points out of the attributes because the 20-30 SPs you save cannot begin to cover a 15% or extra 7% to one of your dot's vital duties. It is not a matter of whether the SA is necessary so much as cost efficiency for performance.
Every position except the ones I mentioned have enough important % pieces it is silly to take a SA unless you planned your build poorly.
The problem with this argument is that you're assuming that the pieces of AEQ a dot ends up with are predetermined at the start of a build when the primary attributes for a lot of those "duties" are being chosen. The AEQ that a dot ends up with is at the mercy of the shopping gods, and choosing an SA piece over continuing to shop for a % piece can be a better choice depending on what the shop offers. Also, by the time that AEQ is chosen, reducing the amount of SPs spent into attributes in order to get higher SAs might not be an option. Having a hard and fast rule like that and not allowing any flexibility is a good way to build a bad dot.
Yes, the intention of your obvious statement that you should build a dot in a manner that helps his performance is true. Unfortunately SA AEQ accomplishes the opposite of that. Planning to take SA AEQ for any position except K/P and possibly OL/possession WR is a bad idea and should only be done in desperation.
As illustrated in your post one of the common misconceptions about this is that it does not mean neglecting any SAs themselves. You take the points out of the attributes because the 20-30 SPs you save cannot begin to cover a 15% or extra 7% to one of your dot's vital duties. It is not a matter of whether the SA is necessary so much as cost efficiency for performance.
Every position except the ones I mentioned have enough important % pieces it is silly to take a SA unless you planned your build poorly.
The problem with this argument is that you're assuming that the pieces of AEQ a dot ends up with are predetermined at the start of a build when the primary attributes for a lot of those "duties" are being chosen. The AEQ that a dot ends up with is at the mercy of the shopping gods, and choosing an SA piece over continuing to shop for a % piece can be a better choice depending on what the shop offers. Also, by the time that AEQ is chosen, reducing the amount of SPs spent into attributes in order to get higher SAs might not be an option. Having a hard and fast rule like that and not allowing any flexibility is a good way to build a bad dot.
Edited by Longhornfan1024 on Jul 15, 2013 13:13:46
